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GEORGE VVOLFF, OF NORTH BERGEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CHARLES SOHALL, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,666, dated August 7, 1900. Application filed December 1, 1899. Serial No. 738,870. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WOLFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Bergen, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ventilators for Hair-Pins and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to secure satisfactory ventilation through such articles as hair-pins, hat-pins, combs, and the like; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the followingspeoification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a hair-pin embodying this invention. Fig. 2 shows a section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a hat-pin. Fig. 4 shows a comb.

The invention consists in making the teeth or prongs of hair-pins hollow and providing in the head of such hair-pins a ventilatorwheel, and as such hollow prongs or teeth have lateral openings fresh air can enter at the pin-head and passing along the hollow prongs and through the openings can circulate throngh the hair of the wearer to relieve perspiration. By hair-pins is also understood such articles as ladies combs, hat-pins, and the like. In the case of ladies combs where there may be a series of prongs or teeth it is advisable to make every alternate tooth hollow, leaving the others solid, so as not to excessively weaken such combs.

At 1 is indicated the head of the pin in the form of a casing, in which is mounted the axis 2 of ventilator-wheel 3, permitting the latter to rotate freely in such casing when forced by the wind, and for this reason the casing is made in the form of a skeleton frame. At the prong side of the casing or ventilating-chamber the wall of the latter has the perforations or openings 4, affording passage for the air into the hollow teeth or prongs 5. The latter have several lateral holes 6, so that such fresh air can pass therethrough and circulate about the head of the wearer, so as to keep hair and scalp ventilated, particularly in warm weather, to relieve perspiration.

In Fig. 4 is shown a cover or rotary lid '7, having openings or breaks to correspond to the entrance-openings, allowing air to pass to or from wheel 3. This cover when rotated or set can be made to shut off or regulate the passage of air to the wheel on the principle of a damper in a stove. In cold weather, for example, the cover 7 could be entirely closed to prevent circulation through the hollow tooth or teeth.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article for head wear having a hollow ventilating-tooth, and a ventilating-wheel carried by said tooth and arranged to force a current of air through the latter.

2. An article for headwear having a hollow perforated tooth open at its upper end, a hollow head or chamber carried by the said upper end of the tooth and communicating with the open end thereof, and a ventilating-wheel journaled in said hollow head and operating to force a current of air through the said perforated tooth.

3. A comb having a series of teeth some of which are hollow and provided with lateral outlets, a hollow head or chamber with which the hollow teeth communicate, and ventilating-wheels in the chamber substantially as described.

4. An article for headwear,comprising in its construction a hollow tooth provided with lateral outlets, a hollow head carried by the tooth, with which the upper end of the latter communicates, said head being provided with air-inlet openings, a ventilating-wheel journaled in said hollow head and arranged to force a current of air through the tooth, and means for regulating the size of the openings in the head to control the passage of air therethrough, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE WOLFF.

Witnesses:

W. O. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

